Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: isabel

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  • THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF HOMELAND SECURITY IN THE UNITED STATES
    STEVEN M. MACMARTIN / AIDA T. SILVA / ISABEL PATRICIA VÁZQUEZ / RODGER LEE WERNER, JR.
    The History and Evolution of Homeland Security in the United States provides a comprehensive and insightful look into the evolution of US Homeland Security, from its early roots to the post-9/11 era. Drawing on their extensive experience as law enforcement professionals, the authors offer a unique perspective on the challenges and triumphs of this critical field. Students seeki...

    $1,280.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS
    ISABEL ALTAMIRANO-JIMÉNEZ / SARAH NICKEL / WAASEYAA’SIN CHRISTINE SY / HŌKŪLANI K. AIKAU
    An Introduction to Indigenous Feminisms introduces important concepts and approaches for understanding what Indigenous feminisms are, why we use the term in plural, and why Indigenous feminisms are not just for academics. This engaging and accessible textbook, the first of its kind in this subject, provides instructors and students with the historical contexts, analytical tools...

    $1,160.00

  • PATIENT-CENTRED TRANSLATION AND COMMUNICATION
    VICENT MONTALT-RESURRECCIÓ / ISABEL GARCÍA-IZQUIERDO / ANA MUÑOZ-MIQUEL
    In response to the growing importance and spread of patient-centred care, the need to empower patients and the trend towards democratising specialised knowledge in health care, this book puts patients centre stage and provides concepts, methods and learning materials to enhance effective communication with patients and relatives in health care settings. Opening chapters establi...

    $1,000.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
    RUSSELL, ISABEL GALINA
    The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities covers a wide range of issues encountered in the world’s libraries and archives as they continue to expand their support of, and direct engagement in, Digital Humanities (DH) research and teaching. In addition to topics related to the practice of librarianship, and to libraries and archives as DH-friendl...

    $1,280.00

  • EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT IN A CHANGING WORLD
    ISABEL NISBET / STUART SHAW
    This timely book takes stock of the wide range of developments in society, education and assessment and offers conclusions and strategies that are necessary for the future of educational assessment. Drawing on examples from the UK, Europe and USA, the book will dissect cultural, political, psychological and ideological ideas on society, education and assessment and foreground p...

    $1,040.00

  • ¿POR QUÉ LEER A FERGUSON HOY?
    ISABEL WENCES, JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ PRADO, JULIO BELTRÁN
    Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) es una de las figuras más sobresalientes de la llamada “Ilustración escocesa”, junto con David Hume, Thomas Reid y Adam Smith, entre otros. Considerado como el padre de la sociología moderna, el pensamiento de Ferguson es fundamental para comprender las ideas centrales del republicanismo hasta nuestros días. La pregunta que nos planteamos es muy sencil...

    $176.02

  • UNHAPPY BEGINNINGS
    ISABEL GONZÁLEZ-DÍAZ
    This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rer...

    $1,240.00

  • DESIGNING FOR SEX AND GENDER EQUITY
    ISABEL PROCHNER
    Drawing on original designer interviews, this book explores how design interventions can and do support sex and gender equity and what barriers still stand in the way. Isabel Prochner not only brings attention to sex and gender problems related to design artifacts but also provides a unique overview of creative design responses to these issues. The case studies and designer int...

    $1,240.00

  • MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
    SUSAN ROSE / NIGEL SPINKS / ANA ISABEL CANHOTO
    Management Research: Applying the Principles of Business Research Methods supports new researchers on every step of the research journey, from defining a project to communicating its findings, as well as balancing the technical aspects of research with the management of the project itself. Structured around the key stages of a research project, the text reflects the richness an...

    $1,540.00

  • COUNSELING FOR PERIPARTUM DEPRESSION
    ISABEL A. THOMPSON / VANESSA BEATRIZ TEIXEIRA / ERIC S. THOMPSON
    Counseling for Peripartum Depression provides counselors and other mental health professionals with a comprehensive understanding of peripartum depression (PPD) and related disorders during pregnancy and after birth. The book offers diagnostic criteria and screening tools that clinicians can use in session, and focuses on holistic wellness as well as current research on the eti...

    $820.00

  • READING FOR WATER
    HOFMEYR, ISABEL
    An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in this book follow rivers, rain, streams, tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric, surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They p...

    $1,160.00

  • REVOLUTION AND (POST) WAR, 1917-1922
    CLARA ISABEL SERRANO
    This book focuses on the Russian Revolution of 1917, the legacy of the First World War, and Mussolini and Italian fascism – offering an important overview of the major themes of the early 20th century. Using a methodical approach and employing a wide range of sources, the nine chapters provide a re-analysis and synthesis of these three major subjects and looks at how the world ...

    $1,160.00

  • AUGMENTATION TECHNOLOGIES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
    ANN HILL DUIN / ISABEL PEDERSEN
    This book enables readers to interrogate the technical, rhetorical, theoretical, and socio-ethical challenges and opportunities involved in the development and adoption of augmentation technologies and artificial intelligence. The core of our human experience and identity is forever affected by the rise of augmentation technologies that enhance human capability or productivity....

    $1,160.00

  • PSICOLOGÍA SOCIAL DE LA ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA, EL DEPORTE Y EL EJERCICIO (DIGITAL-VS)
    ISABEL CASTILLO / OCTAVIO ÁLVAREZ
    A través de los 10 temas desarrollados por los autores, se presentan los fundamentos de una práctica de la actividad físico-deportiva de calidad, con beneficios bio-psico-sociales para sus practicantes. Cada capítulo se ha estructurado partiendo de los más actuales enfoques teóricos de la materia, pasando por múltiples ejemplos, instrumentos de evaluación, actividades y pregunt...

    $453.00

  • UNDERSTANDING EUROPEAN UNION LAW
    KAREN DAVIES / MAARTEN VAN MUNSTER / ISABEL DÜSTERHÖFT
    Providing short, clear and accessible explanations of the main areas of EU law, Understanding European Union Law is both an ideal introduction for students new to EU law and an essential addition to revision for the more accomplished. This eighth edition has been fully revised and updated with the latest legislative changes and includes an in-depth discussion of ‘Brexit’ and it...

    $1,040.00

  • GAME-PLAYING FOR ACTIVE AGEING AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
    ANA ISABEL VELOSO / LILIANA VALE COSTA
    Given the increase in the ageing population and the evolvement of the Human-Computer Interaction field to a much more humanistic approach, debate is ongoing about designing technology-enabled products for active ageing and healthy lifestyles. Indeed, the mainstream game industry has been challenged with the emergence of an older target group, the advancements in gamification an...

    $1,125.00

  • MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR DECISION MAKING WITH MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
    MARIA ISABEL GOMES / NELSON CHIBELES MARTINS
    This book brings together, in a single volume, the fields of multicriteria decision making and multiobjective optimization that are traditionally covered separately. Both fields have in common the presence of multiple perspectives of looking at and evaluating decisions to be taken but they differ in the number of available alternatives. Multicriteria approaches deal with decisi...

    $1,700.00

  • REVOLUTIONIZING SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
    EKATERINA IVANOVA AND ISABEL RIMANOCZY
    There is growing awareness among leading responsible management scholars and practitioners that understanding global wicked problems is insufficient in effecting lasting engagement and changed behaviors. Research indicates that to impact behavior, the mindset has to shift, which leaves the question: How do you shift a mindset? This book guides educators and practitioners, their...

    $1,120.00

  • THE PANDEMIC CRISIS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
    PAULO VILA MAIOR / ISABEL CAMISÃO
    This book assesses the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the European Union (EU), as well as its response in dealing with an overarching, multidimensional crisis with consequences extending beyond public health safety to political, economic, legal, and institutional arenas. It argues the pandemic represents a symmetric crisis cutting across countries with different soci...

    $1,200.00

  • MEETING MENTAL BREAKDOWN MINDFULLY
    ISABEL CLARKE
    Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully introduces the Comprehend, Cope and Connect (CCC) approach, developed and evaluated within mental health services, to a wider audience who need to understand mental health issues, whether for themselves or to support others. The book deconstructs and normalizes mental breakdown, starting from the individual’s inner experience, leading to pract...

    $740.00

  • CERVANTES AND THE EARLY MODERN MIND
    ISABEL JAÉN
    This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, and Gómez Pereira. The editors bring together humanists and scientists: literary scholars and doctors whose interdi...

    $1,160.00

  • STAGING DETECTION
    ISABEL STOWELL-KAPLAN
    Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance across a range of Victorian plays, Staging Detection foregrounds the role of the stage detective in shaping important theatrical modes of the period, from popular melodrama to society ...

    $1,120.00

  • BLOOD AND EMBER
    ISABEL COOPER
    Raised to be weapons, Sentinels spend their lives fighting the monsters that prey upon humanity. Their hands will shape the world, and their swords will seal its fate. Fans of The Witcher and Jennifer Armentrout will love this epic tale of adventure and romance. A century ago, the Traitor God's fury left the world broken by violent storms and twisted monsters born of darkness a...

    $182.00

  • THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS IN SEX WORK AND PROSTITUTION
    ISABEL CROWHURST / SUSAN DEWEY / CHIMARAOKE IZUGBARA
    Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution is about sex work and prostitution third sector organizations (TSOs): non-governmental and non-profit organizations that provide support services to, and advocate for the well-being of people operating in the sex industries. With a focus on three vast and extremely diverse regions, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, this bo...

    $1,200.00

  • DIFFICULT WOMEN ON TELEVISION DRAMA
    ISABEL PINEDO
    Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved feminist issues they raise or address: equal labor force participation, the demand for sexual pleasure and freedom, opposition to sexual and domestic violence, and the need for intersectional approaches. Drawing on examples from The Killing, Orange is the New ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE STORMBRINGER
    ISABEL COOPER
    The Witcher goes fiercely feminist in this gripping paranormal romance from noted author Isabel Cooper. Raised to be weapons against the darkness, Sentinels spend their lives fighting the monsters that prey upon humanity. Their hands will shape the world, and their swords will seal its fate. A warrior lost to time… Pursuing her latest quarry deep into the wilderness, Sentinel D...

    $162.00

  • THE SUSTAINABILITY MINDSET PRINCIPLES
    ISABEL RIMANOCZY
    As we increase our awareness of the planetary challenges and how they intersect with the discipline or profession we choose to focus on, we have put our attention on the external forces and impacts. What remains untouched however is the set of beliefs, values, assumptions, mental processes, and paradigms that we hold and share: our mindset. But how do we change a mindset? This ...

    $860.00

  • MUSIC UNLIMITED
    ISABEL FARRELL / KENTON MANN
    This book is designed to be a music performer's companion, informing the performer's decisions as they prepare performances. It describes some of the situations in which performers will find themselves and also the techniques which work for performers while performing in community venues. ...

    $860.00

  • HEALTH EQUITY
    K. BRYANT SMALLEY / JACOB C. WARREN / M. ISABEL FERNANDEZ
    Health Equity: A Solutions-Focused Approach is a comprehensive textbook that illustrates existing conditions of health disparities across a range of populations in the United States, positions those disparities within the broader sociopolitical framework that leads to their existence, and most importantly, presents specific ways in which health equity solutions can be designed ...

    $1,862.00

  • COMMUNITY CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE IN LATIN AMERICA
    PAUL R. LACHAPELLE / ‎ISABEL GUTIERREZMONTES / ‎CORNELIA BUTLER FLORA
    Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America addresses the role of communities in building their capacity to increase resiliency and carry out rural development strategies in Latin America. Resiliency in a community sense is associated with an ability to address stress and respond to shock while obtaining participatory engagement in community assessment, planning and outc...

    $999.00